Baseball coaches who can't remain positive to save their life. I called a kid out tonight for an illegal leadoff (there is no stealing in this particular league). He left the bag on the windup, which is against the rules. As soon as I did, his coach came over to me and said (read: angrily almost-screamed) "I don't agree with that, not at all! He deserved a warning; every other time we've had warnings." (Umm...so at some point you stop getting warnings and you get called on it, Coach.)

He was really making me quite mad, but I just had to keep a calm head and say "Coach, I stand by my call. Nowhere am I required to give you a warning, and it was a blatant violation." I think I repeated parts of that a dozen times over the course of the rest of the game, which that team lost 3-0.

Thing that doesn't suck: I know I was right, and I doubt that this particular coach will return to coach for Fulton Parks and Rec again next season. Not a positive role model, at all.

Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:55 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

The eyesight of the man in yellow:

Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:55 pm

octo

Joined: Sat Mar 13, 2010Posts: 209

Re: things that suck...

L-Town Expatriate wrote:

The eyesight of the man in yellow:

This, this, a million times this.

Also, I just read the MSHSAA Academic Competition manual. *vomits* I cannot believe we are expected to follow this crap. And just for your amusement:

MSHSAA wrote:

The following specific criteria shall be used by the schools and site selection chairperson:1. Facility/Sight must be located within the boundaries of the State of Missouri, as perBoard policy.

Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:02 pm

WillHack

Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2008Posts: 422

Re: things that suck...

octo wrote:

L-Town Expatriate wrote:

The eyesight of the man in yellow:

This, this, a million times this.

Also, I just read the MSHSAA Academic Competition manual. *vomits* I cannot believe we are expected to follow this crap. And just for your amusement:

MSHSAA wrote:

The following specific criteria shall be used by the schools and site selection chairperson:1. Facility/Sight must be located within the boundaries of the State of Missouri, as perBoard policy.

Hahaha nice catch! That manual is great light reading, if you want a cheap laugh.

Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:37 pm

Jeffrey Hill

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

Re: things that suck...

Me accidentally killing Missouri quizbowl's presence on the web for a couple of minutes.

I enabled a new "site" for some more domains I'm moving over to this server, but didn't create the folder in the right place so when I went to reload the Apache configuration (which is basically instantaneous, so I rarely hesitate to do it) it gave me a warning that the folder didn't exist but then said [OK] to indicate that it worked. After creating the folder in the right place I reloaded configuration again and that's when it just said " * Reloading web server config apache2 " without [OK] or any error message. At that point I checked moquizbowl.com and sure enough it was down. (Of course, this also killed moqba.org and moaca.org at the same time, so shows you how careful I have to be when messing with stuff.) I had to "reload" apache (which terminates and restarts the Apache web server program) to get it to correct. It's really weird that it didn't fail until the second time (when there were no errors!). Not sure what happened, but hope it doesn't happen again!

Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:45 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

And now, Wayne Rooney's relationship with his own fans, because England has only scored one goal in the entire tournament!

Also, not being able to get a free Kit-Kat here because The Sun isn't available in the States. If it were, you probably wouldn't find it with the other newspapers…

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

Re: things that suck...

U. Lou Sthagaim wrote:

Me accidentally killing Missouri quizbowl's presence on the web for a couple of minutes.

I enabled a new "site" for some more domains I'm moving over to this server, but didn't create the folder in the right place so when I went to reload the Apache configuration (which is basically instantaneous, so I rarely hesitate to do it) it gave me a warning that the folder didn't exist but then said [OK] to indicate that it worked. After creating the folder in the right place I reloaded configuration again and that's when it just said " * Reloading web server config apache2 " without [OK] or any error message. At that point I checked moquizbowl.com and sure enough it was down. (Of course, this also killed moqba.org and moaca.org at the same time, so shows you how careful I have to be when messing with stuff.) I had to "reload" apache (which terminates and restarts the Apache web server program) to get it to correct. It's really weird that it didn't fail until the second time (when there were no errors!). Not sure what happened, but hope it doesn't happen again!

Word to the wise: the directory where you're putting logs apparently has to exist. I guess Apache doesn't have permissions to create the directories (at least with the permissions the parent directory has on my server...). "Restarting" the server worked last night because I had disabled the new site that was causing the problem and didn't realize it was disabled until this morning. I found this out this morning, re-enabled it and reloaded configuration and it apparently killed the webserver again! Yay! (Turns out the problem last night was the same thing - not being able to open error logs.) If only it told me that on screen right away instead of dumping it into the error.log file.

Now I should have everything worked out - sorry for any downtime you experienced. Now back to non-technical things that suck.

Sat Jun 19, 2010 8:58 am

FishyFreshman

Joined: Sat Apr 14, 2007Posts: 501

Re: things that suck...

Going to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter on opening day.

Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:07 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Moving back in with my parents and struggling for a week with the local ISP to get them newfangled Internets turned on. Naturally, I get my DSL router yesterday and I couldn't get it set up and of course the ISP helpline is closed today.

Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:52 pm

dividebyzero

Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009Posts: 359Location: Near East St. Louis

Re: things that suck...

Kids Week on Jeopardy. Not very entertaining at all.

Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:46 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

dividebyzero wrote:

Kids Week on Jeopardy. Not very entertaining at all.

According to CBS' Mark Knoller, none of them could identify a picture of this guy:

Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:51 pm

WillHack

Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2008Posts: 422

Re: things that suck...

I'm house-sitting for one of my best friends while he is a camp counselor, and one of his campers is Will Walters, the kid who won on Tuesday (and is, incidentally, from my home town).

Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:06 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Manchester United.

They couldn't beat a team that only had ten guys on the field, that's only scored 13 goals in the MLS all season.

GO WIZARDS!

Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:39 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Headline writers at the local weekly:

Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:31 pm

dividebyzero

Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009Posts: 359Location: Near East St. Louis

Re: things that suck...

Getting hit by three blue shells in the same race (the flying kind). And repeatedly missing item boxes, but that's my fault.Also, I don't think your image tag worked properly, Kyle. At least not in my browser.

Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:08 am

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

It's time-coded, stupid TwitPic. I had sent it there first from my phone.Go here instead to see it: http://twitpic.com/29sq31

Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:47 pm

DeckardCain

Joined: Mon Feb 09, 2004Posts: 4379Location: Ozark, Missouri

Re: things that suck...

Sadly I had to look at that twice to figure out what was wrong with it.

Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:01 pm

Jeffrey Hill

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

As the editorial reminded me, that intersection sucks even more because the intersection with MO-291 is a couple hundred feet away and as a result there are many times where the left turn lane to turn north on 291 is backed up. I can't remember: is the NB light red when the SB light is green (when there is no conflicting traffic)? I seem to remember that being the case -- if so I'm sure it's to keep the short segment before MO-291 from being backed up. If not, then am I thinking of the NB left turn previously not being protected but now it is? Or am I just making things up?

(And yeah, that's where I almost always leave that shopping center)

Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:48 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

It could use a roundabout, but then The Dish would wind up losing half their kitchen.

Ehh, the city could just plow over the vacant bank building, return Liberty Drive (formerly Highway 10) to its original alignment, and that might straightening things out a wee bit. But that's what people with money to burn & absolute disregard for infrastructure would do.

This freak accident on I-44 killed a former Mizzou football player (and son of a candidate for state rep.) and a band member from St. James today. If there's two things close to my heart, it's Mizzou and band, so this really hits close to home. My thoughts are with the families of both who were killed.

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2004Posts: 6265Location: In between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown (aka Johnson County, KS)

Re: things that suck...

Thanks KCP&L for (apparently) not sending me an email notification of my bill... Gmail shouldn't have filtered it as it's specifically supposed to star my bill notifications. I guess the hillonline forwarding might have screwed up or something. At least it's not due for another 2 weeks.

Speaking of things that suck, their online account management system is terribly slow sometimes.

Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:39 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

Soccer in Qatar.

They're only ranked 16th in Asia, yet somehow FIFA thinks they'll make more money hosting games in the desert than they will hosting them at Arrowhead.

Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:32 pm

dividebyzero

Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009Posts: 359Location: Near East St. Louis

Re: things that suck...

I don't know, it could actually be kinda cool. And there is some merit to the whole idea of promotion of soccer in the Middle East. Just a thought, I'll most likely just watch it on TV wherever it is anyways.

Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:31 pm

Charlie Dees

Joined: Tue Jul 25, 2006Posts: 4134Location: Columbia, MO

Re: things that suck...

Soccer sucks to watch, so who cares?

Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:24 pm

dividebyzero

Joined: Sun Aug 30, 2009Posts: 359Location: Near East St. Louis

Re: things that suck...

I would tend to think there are a lot of people who would disagree with you on that point, but you're entitled to your own opinion too.

Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:44 pm

L-Town Expatriate

Joined: Thu Apr 22, 2004Posts: 5550Location: Riding a Mule down the Katy Trail to the State Fair

Re: things that suck...

dividebyzero wrote:

I don't know, it could actually be kinda cool. And there is some merit to the whole idea of promotion of soccer in the Middle East. Just a thought, I'll most likely just watch it on TV wherever it is anyways.

They do have a noble idea of building temporary stadia, then tearing them down and using that metal to build new stadia in developing nations. Granted, once 2022 is gone and FIFA have moved on to their next oil-laden money trough host nation, what's to keep Qatar accountable to their plan? Last week proved that whistle-blowing only serves to get your nation smacked down (*cough*Sunday*Times*cough*BBC*Panorama*cough*).

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